Elegant way to search an PHP array using a user-defined function

Question

Basically, I want to be able to get the functionality of C++\'s find_if(), Smalltalk\'s detect: etc.:

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Answer 1

To pull the first one from the array, or return false:

current(array_filter($myArray, function($element) { ... }))

More info on current() here.